DAVE RAMSEY'S ................PAIN POINTS IN THE TRAILBLAZER PHASE

 Dave Ramsey, in his excellent new book, "Build a Business You Love" did an excellent job of identifying the different stages in the life of a small business, along with frustrations ("pain points") found in each stage.

In Stage 3, a growing phase, what Ramsey refers to as the "Trailblazer" phase, he identifies:

      SIGNS OF BEING IN THE "TRAILBLAZER" stage: 

• Working longer hours isn't working like it did before.
• Hiring more people to solve problems doesn't work anymore.
• Processes and systems are not strong enough to support the vision.
• You're striving to establish plans and processes to scale your business.
• You're working on the basics of a powerful and healthy organization to get reliable results.

     FRUSTRATIONS YOU FACE IN THE TRAILBLAZER stage:

• You're trying to figure out how to operationalize the company. 
• You don't know how to get your leaders to think about bigger-picture problems.
• You're having trouble scaling the business.
• You feel stretched way too thin.
• The team has more work than they can handle.

While I agree that these are common signs and "pain points" in the startup phase of a business, we at O'Hara Business Strategies, LLC. can help address these issues with savvy, strategically-based, and cost and time-effective business coaching, and other services.

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DAVE RAMSEY'S ...........PAIN POINTS IN THE "PATHFINDER" PHASE 

Dave Ramsey, in his excellent new book, "Build a Business You Love" did an excellent job of identifying the different stages in the life of a small business, along with frustrations ("pain points") found in each stage.

In Stage 2, or the Startup phase of a business, what Ramsey refers to as the "Treadmill Operator", he identifies:

      SIGNS OF BEING IN THE "TREADMILL OPERATOR" stage: 

• Team member turnover. 
• You have unreliable results.
• The team doesn't demonstrate the values that created your initial success.
• The team is not aligned.

     FRUSTRATIONS YOU FACE IN THE PATHFINDER stage:

• You're used to putting out fires, and you feel uncomfortable about being "not needed" now that you've delegated some of those responsibilities.
• You're unsure about how to spend your time--it's a big shift from leaving the cave, killing something, and dragging it home. Now the team is doing that.
• You're making more money than you ever have before, and you don't know how to invest in the business.

While I agree that these are common signs and "pain points" in the startup phase of a business, we at O'Hara Business Strategies, LLC. can help address these issues with savvy, strategically-based, and cost and time-effective business coaching, and other services.

*Used under the Fair Use Rules of the U.S. Copyright Law and also in accordance with the book's allowance for "...brief quotations in critical reviews or articles..."